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How does one define the difference between love and lust?

Love Vs. Lust?


  • Simple Definition

    I like to keep things simple when possible for I feel life, in itself, is complicated enough without us attemting to add to it. This being said:

    I simply believe lust is something you can feel instantly and love is something that grows during time.

    I believe lust is concerened with self gratification and love is more concerned with your significant other.

    I believe lust is all about self and love is about others.

    I think lust serves self and love serves others.

    I believe lust creates false security and love is security.

    I think lust is "fool's gold" and love is "pure gold".

    I believe lust drains a potential relationship whereas love feeds it.

    25%  Voted for by Energizer Bunny, rebelspartan117, nisesunshine, sahel.
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  • Lust = Love
    Why the "vs"? You demonize lust when lust is love, just on a different level.
    12%  Voted for by Brew Kline, dollar.
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  • Difficult

    Just because there are clear differences between the two in plain definition, doesn't mean it's easy differentiate themk when expeirences it. A heart attack is a major cause for a alert--gas can be some major discomfort, but nothing too serious. Yet many people (including those who have already experienced heart attacks) can mistake a bad case of indigestion for a heart attack.

    People underestimate lust. Lust itself has many states and forms. It's not just that naughty, concious decision for some superficial fun. It can be all-consuming and very much like feeling you're in love. You can answer the basic questions like "Would you still be with the person if they grew scales on their face?" and "Do you even give a crap about what they say and think?...Did you KNOW they have thoughts of their own?". You could answer those with it seeming more like love, but in reality you may just not know them well enoughor have been through enough experiences yet to test just how deep of a level of caring there is between the two of you.

    How can you truly tell the difference? I don't think you can, actually. It's hard when you're passionately in love or lust. All you can really do is wait it out and have fun with the person for as long as you can. Why would you need to be in love in the immediate moment? Just enjoy it for what it is--even if you don't know what it is! The more time you spend "successfully" with the person, the more like love it will probably feel.

    "Love: unwavering (a choice)"

    I think I have to disagree there.

    12%  Voted for by Scrap, kittymorgan.
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  • Emotional vs. physical

    LOVE http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=love LUST http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=lust

    In these definitions I think the key difference is that love is an emotion, lust is a physical feeling. I think love may involve lust because often time physical feeling is a result of emotions, but lust does not always involve love.

    12%  Voted for by newmiracle87, Neko-Hikaru.
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  • Love is blind

    I believe love is blind. Like to say that if you met someone, would you feel the same if you lost your sense of sight? If it would matter about the person then I feel it was lust but if they are, to you, no less then what they were to begin with it is love.

    Beauty expires while love surpasses time.

    Luch Muck. Hammy.Heart

    Voted for by Hamsandwich.
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  • It's simple

    I think: Lust- you lust after someone because they're hot or whatever you want to call it Love- You love someone for who they are not what they look like

    Voted for by HunteroftheDusk.
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  • So much to say, so little time to say it.

    Love, and lust are oposits, they don't work together. Love builds makes things (people) stronger better, lust ripes apart, takes down. Love grows over time...but can be stomped out, this is hard to do, Love is the giving of ones self for the happiness of others (I'm not talking sexualy), sacrificing your wants your dreams, so that the ones you love, can have theres. Lust is a me thing what I want, lust is the sexual thing, its love twisted and abused. Lustis every thing that is hurtful...you want an exaple, a relationship based soly on sexual feeling is lust, a relationship that is for your benifit, getting what you want no matter how much you hurt the onther person is lust. They don't work together...Lust causes problems, Love fixes them (mostly).

    Voted for by -Forgoten-.
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  • Complicated.
    I think that love and lust are so much alike that barley anyone can tell them apart. I think lust is wanting so bad to be in love that you make yourself fall for the first person that comes on to you. Real love is a feeling that overwhelms you and you can just tell that you really love someone, but lust and love being so much alike, sometimes you mistake them for one another. Some feelings may be the same. therefor you may think you love someone when really you are just lusting for love. The diffrence is lust is what you make yourself feel and love is what your heart feels for you.
    Voted for by AshleyAftermath.
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  • The world is blind
    To how different are the qualities they seem to possess. Through the Spirit of God many such qualities were revealed in my life, to the point of discerning the very raw difference in the two distinct feelings (more so, lust, limerence, and certain dimensions of purported love, particularly that I felt for God, which made it easier to distinguish certain feelings that I would find evident towards others).

    It was in this that there became absolute separation (spirit, flesh and soul) between the many variations, such to the point that no two feelings could co-habitate with another, and this thus allowed evolution of the particulars that need remain, and prayerful destruction and deliverance from those that didn't. The imitative design of lust is such that we think we need it, yet it only consumes us. In itself it is simply that; an imitation, brought on by a fleshly desire to fulfill certain basic, intrinsic, humanistic functions. Yet, it becomes more than automated.

    Trust only that love will encapsulate all that is needed in directive relationships towards others, even those that involve the more sexual approach. There is a craving, affection and attraction that love too brings on in a more desired form. Lust too cannot segregate its attractions, whereas love naturally does, and for the rest of it, you remain almost void of the notion of sexual orientation, accept in those instances when your flesh whimpers to show you otherwise, and you quickly allow the Spirit to minister and uphold the less bondage induced approach.
    Voted for by TeChNoWC.
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  • it is nearly impossible to define

    I have often wondered...contemplated...the difference between the two...the answer should be simple, should it not? Love: it is the deeper of the two Lust: the more shallow of the two Love: is an action Lust:a compulsion Love: unwavering (a choice) Lust:ever-changing

    if making a list (such as the above) provides such a clear difference, why is it so hard to realise the difference when you are in the midst of the relationship...the situation...why is finding love...real love...so hard?

    Voted for by wayward cry.
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